Fascism, Modernism, and Modernity

Antliff, Mark

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“…It was not until 1980 when Diana Ghirardo became one of the first scholars to research the link between Mussolini's regime and rationalist movement (Ghirardo, 1980). In 2002, Mark Antliff, who also focused on tracing the political involvement of progressive architects in fascist Italy, has pointed out that fascist architecture was conservative and modern at the same time (Antliff, 2002).…”

Section: Modernism Totalitarianism and Holidaymentioning

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The working masses - the resting masses. Architecture of leisure in communist Poland

Ciarkowski

2021

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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This study is an analysis of the modernist leisure architecture in the Polish People's Republic and its relation to the phenomenon of mass holiday in authoritarian and totalitarian European countries. Modernist holiday resorts designed by the leading Polish architects were a reflection of the local reception of the modern movement. Using the scale of a single building or the entire construction complex, the designers supported the process of building a new identity for the communist society. Modern aesthetics was meant to endorse the authorities' official policy and create the image of a progressive state. The social program implemented the ideology of a socialist country, while the assignation of resorts to particular workplaces reinforced the labour ethos.

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Section: Modernism Totalitarianism and Holidaymentioning

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The working masses - the resting masses. Architecture of leisure in communist Poland

Ciarkowski

2021

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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“…On a wider theoretical level, the political–ideological movements of the early 20th century, such as National Socialism, have also been depicted as modern constructs (Bauman, 1989; Habermas, 1983). In this light, fascism has been described as a phenomenon which, in its ideological instability, is deeply modern (Antliff, 2002; Ben-Ghiat, 2001). Historically, it cannot be considered a parenthesis but can be thought of as a continuation of a particular modern trajectory of postunification Italian history.…”

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Overcoming Distance and Space Through Technology

Caprotti

2011

Space and Culture

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This article analyzes modern, discursive attempts to overcome distance and space through analyses of discourses focused on record aviation attempts in 1930s’ fascist Italy. Two particular flights are analyzed, both linking Italy with South America. The first analyzed flight is a 1937 seaplane distance record attempt; the second was a 1939 endeavor to establish regular, scheduled airmail services between Italy and Brazil. The flights are analyzed using institutional importance criteria, based on the preservation of archival documents concerning the record attempts by the Ministry of Aeronautics. The argument presented here is that the examined flights were of importance to the regime for immediate propaganda purposes, as well as for the use of aviation as a metaphor for Italian fascism. In particular, the article uses a framework that frames Italian fascism as a modern phenomenon, rooted in the ideological and political utility of the separation between natural and social spheres. Aviation, when identified with fascism, became a technosocial discursive realm juxtaposed to the natural limits and boundaries to be overcome through aeronautical technology. The article resultantly analyzes the discursive construction and representation of aviation, and nature, in the case of the two record flights.

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Danteum: Giuseppe Terragni

Mekinda¹

2017

Companion to the History of Architecture

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Known only through a small number of drawings and photographs as well as a single model, the Danteum is arguably one of the most enigmatic architectural projects by a renowned architect of the twentieth century. Commissioned in the late 1930s as a center for the study of the poet Dante Alighieri, the Danteum was also conceived by its architects Pietro Lingeri and Giuseppe Terragni as a monument to the poet's particular vision for a renewed imperial Italy, which seemed finally to have been realized by Mussolini's fascist order. To that end, the architects developed a design that fused symbolic structures extracted from Dante's work directly with the interior organization and architectural form of the building. Rejecting figurative ornament almost entirely, Lingeri and Terragni deployed the stripped surfaces, abstract forms, and orderly but irregular arrangement of spaces typical of architectural modernism to design a building that would embody the journey told in The Divine Comedy , from hell to paradise and beyond. In this synthesis of form and content, the Danteum proposed a modernist monumentality of unprecedented – and unequalled – integrity and power.

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Fascism, Modernism, and Modernity

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The working masses - the resting masses. Architecture of leisure in communist Poland

The working masses - the resting masses. Architecture of leisure in communist Poland

Overcoming Distance and Space Through Technology

Danteum: Giuseppe Terragni

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